SST 511

Ecology, Human Health, and the Anthropocene

In this online workshop, students learn how to perform a qualitative environmental impact assessment for a given human activity proposed for a given site somewhere in the United States. They do so with the help of the environmental impact assessment framework established under U.S. law. In the process, students also explore the environmental implications of a broad array of human activities associated with life in an industrialized society. They do so in part using perspectives informed by systems thinking.

Units: 3.0